How much notice do you have to give?
ativan dosage high “Ah, here is our case,” Zahed says, smiling at last and tousling the boy’s hair. He has fortunately made a full recovery. But other children in the border regions will not be so lucky. And unless the polio teams can get access to them, the virus will continue to circulate. The global campaign, decades in the making, has come down to this: an all-out, very expensive effort to eliminate the last few problem areas in some of the most troubled and undeveloped parts of the final three countries where polio is endemic: Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Nigeria. It is one of the most expensive and ambitious global health initiatives today, and it is tantalizingly close to victory. There are now just a few hundred cases of paralysis per year worldwide, down from roughly 350,000 when the campaign started in 1988. But going the final inch will require more than just good science and vast amounts of money—it will require a tremendous force of collective will.